Actually, the name "Samwise" was one of Tolkien's linguistic jokes. The name itself means "Half-wise," in other words, practically stupid. We see Samwise develop into a very wise character in the Books, and at the end, in the King's Letter (part of the Epilogue to LotR that Tolkien later discarded), Aragorn says that Samwise, who is called Perhael in Sindarin, ought to be called Panthael, which means "Full-wise." In other words, that linguistic joke should be emended.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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